Week 4:
This week is our final week on Matilda which meant we had a lot of work to do because we had only learnt half of the dance to the “School Song”.

At the beginning of the week, we worked on the singing in the song "School Song" again because this helped us to make sure we were all loud and projected the words perfectly. This means that we had to warm our voices up properly through doing many different tongue twisters which made it easier to sing the songs because it meant we could fit all the little words in to the song. Practicing the song was very useful because it meant that we were able to sing good enough as a group and that we were all understanding and singing exactly how the characters we were portraying in "School Song" was good enough. We also practiced the dance moves we learnt for the song because it helped us adapt our moves to what we wanted to do and the way we wanted to make it. Overall I feel today was very useful because we were able to work together as a group to learn adapt our characterisation. 

As the week went on, we started to learn the main bit of the "block scene", which meant that we had warm up properly before doing this. The warm up was brief but allowed us to have warmed up our voices, mobilized our joints and we did a pulse raiser to pump the but quickly round the body. The block part was a lot harder than my group thought but after a while of getting used to the moves and when and where we each had to go, it got a lot stronger and smooth. In the "block scene" we had to be careful of our spacial awareness all the time because there were blocks been chucked everywhere and people walking in gaps which meant everyone had to make sure they were in the right place at the right time. Today we got up to the part where we the other group was and that was up to the letter "Q" in the song. Overall I think today went very well as we got a lot done and everyone learnt that spacial awareness in this dance was very important.

At the end of the week we had to, not only perform it but to actually learn the end of the dance. We were first did a really quick warm up through doing a pulse raiser and warming up our voice with alliteration. We also worked on our breathing holding our breathe for a certain amount of time so that we could hold any long notes. We started our rehearsing standing next to the other group who had the blocks and I’m the same position as they were. The number of people we had in our group was the same as them so each person had someone they knew they had to concentrate on. The end of the block bit was quite easy to pick up and I found it was just common sense where you had to put the blocks. After a few goes from each group, everyone was able to pick it up. Then we did the very end of the dance which was also quite simple, all the moves were sharp and had made the dance really dramatic. We then recorded our final try and in my opinion it was one of the best rehearsals we have done, even though someone messed up the block scene but I managed to sort everything out and get the block there in time. 

Overall I think this week was really practical and useful and we were able to complete the whole dance as a group working together. Although it was very time consuming and caused everyone to work super hard, we finished it well.